I found the flagholders - dah - if the line was a bear it would have bit me. Diana

how do you get to the "flagholders" page? could you post the exact url? Diana

Dear List, Some time ago I saw a site that translates English to Italian and vice versa. Would someone with the address please repost it to the list. I have a friend that needs to correspond with cousins in Italy. Thanks in advance Tom Travis travisaf@aol.com

Good for a laugh... In a message dated 07/25/2000 7:29:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, centans@tampabay.rr.com writes: << As found in The Librarian's Genealogy Notebook by Dahrl Elizabeth Moore ... Warning -- Genealogy Pox Very Contagious to Adults Symptoms: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, and places. Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mail carrier when he or she doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eyes. THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE! Treatment: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the house when he or she can be alone. Remarks: The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it. By An Anonymous Author >>

>...for Ellen< Also for Cornelia However my name IS Nellie Suzanne! Not a nickname here! :-) Suzanne Guinn swguinn@kanza.net "The will of God will never lead you, Where the grace of God cannot keep you." When forwarding, always delete previous addresses at the top to eliminate misuse of information. One woman was stalked by a stranger because of information he found there.

I am not familiar with where the site might be, but Nellie was usually a nickname for Ellen. Some others: Name Nickname Ann Nancy Sarah Sally Mary Polly Margaret Peggy Jane Jennie Elizabeth Betsy Harriet Hattie J. Kelsey Jones > Hi. > Sometime back someone listed a place where you could see what a name was a > nick name for. > Was Nellie also a nick name for Margaret? > Needless to say, I am hoping it is. > Rose > >

Hi. Sometime back someone listed a place where you could see what a name was a nick name for. Was Nellie also a nick name for Margaret? Needless to say, I am hoping it is. Rose

I went to Ask Jeeves and came up with this sight Don't know how accurate it is but it's worth a shot. <A HREF="http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/nicknames.html">USGW -Nicknames</ A> http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/nicknames.html Lindy

Hi All, I have just added over 1400 newspaper abstracts from the Wellsboro Agitator 1880-1881. You can find these in the TC Newspaper Abstracts section of the Online Research Library at box 7B. Researchers from Bradford and Chemung are reminded to check it out also. I see articles from all three of our counties in them. <A HREF=" http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm "> Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I have included an antique Tioga County postcard on each of the thirteen pages of the new abstracts. I believe that none of these have previously appeared on the site. I am headed to New Jersey tomorrow for the weekend to track down more flagholders. I have one of my NJ friends all fired up about flagholders even though she is not a genealogy freak like the rest of us. She has been driving through cemeteries all week on her way to and from work. This is contagious. For those of you who want to help in the hunt, see instructions on the front page of the flagholder section. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF=" http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm ">Tri-Coun ties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Hi All, I have added some more Bradford County Veterans and some more flagholders. The latest treasure in the flagholders is a Veteran of the Indian Wars that I ran across yesterday. I have clearly reached the point of diminishing returns in finding new flagholders in my several county area, but every once in a while a real treasure, such as this one, reveals itself. Take a look, Joyce M. Tice <A HREF=" http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm ">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Hi All, I have a willing local volunteer to work on updating Champlin Cemetery. Are there others in that area who would be willing to help her? Let me know and I'llput you in touch. Thanks, Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tr i-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Hi All, I have added more pages to the Bradford County Veterans page at Box 12C of the Online Research Library of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I also added a picture of the LOTM of Sabinsville to the Maccabees page of the Flagholder section of the site. Take a peek. Joyce M. Tice

Hi All, I have added some more flagholders pages to that section and have added pictures and histories to some existing pages. A few of the new flagholders need identification, so drop by and give it a try.' Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counti es Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

------------------ Reply Separator -------------------- Originally From: "Wm. Deginder" <drdeg1@pol.net> Subject: township school tax? Date: 07/24/2000 06:05pm Fellow Listers, in another county I found answers to questions I sent to The List a few days ago: "I have been searching township maps, school lists, diaries, tax reports and other likely sources I can find in the Tri-Counties data. On township maps, I thought I saw public schools located so all children could walk to classes. In early 1800s were children kicked out of elementary school if father failed to pay the township taxes? "A Tri-Counties Lister has sent me copies of a Township Assessor's reports for 1823 & 1824 that list "Poor children sent home because parents are not able to pay". The name of each father appears in the column on the left. The name and the age or birth date of each child appear in the columns to the right. "Would an assessor be recording "children returned" or "children sent home" if the children were in a school run by a church or a farmers' association? "Can anyone tell me why the word "triennial" follows the year-date on each report? ( as in "...1823-Triennial" ) .... from Centre County, Pennsylvania 15 Historical Sketches of Our 200 Years by Douglas Mcneal #12 - Keeping Pace with Government and Education The county's most visible elected officer for its first 50 years was the high sheriff. Early anecdotes suggest that the sheriff acted on behalf of the gentry to hold the working class in check. Sheriff James Duncan in December 1802, at the county's first hanging, used his "weighted riding whip" to subdue an effort by ironworkers to free the prisoner after the rope snapped on the first try. The sheriff was backed by a line of sword-wielding gentlemen on horseback, led by Capt. James Potter. Five of the seven-member posse that pursued and captured highwayman David Lewis in 1820 were still mounted gentry. Schools became the great equalizer. The earliest schools, often church-based, charged $1 to $2 a month per child tuition to support the teacher. After 1809 "paupers" were educated free but families hated declaring themselves paupers. Fewer than 200 children a year got a free education. It was estimated that only one child in 20 statewide attended school in 1830. The Common Schools Act of 1834 made school free for everyone, but many townships, including Centre County's Haines, Gregg, Miles, Half Moon, and Potter, rejected the necessary tax as long as they could. Germans feared the state would cleanse schools of their language; Quakers felt church schools were adequate; and the rich hated to pay more taxes than the poor. Chaos reigned in one-room schoolhouses until 1856 when Secretary Curtin created County School Superintendents and State Normal Schools. For about a century from the establishment of the office, County School Superintendents replaced the sheriff as first in visibility and power. Until State Normal Schools got going, the Superintendent taught aspiring teachers in County Normal Schools each summer, then examined them in the fall. Even after the County Normal was dropped in 1879, County Superintendents certified teachers and buildings, and set school taxes with local directors. T. Ellwood Sones, the last county superintendent, oversaw district consolidation in 1952 and the disappearance of his own job in 1965. Only since the second world war have the Commissioners emerged as county leaders and marshals of the array of human services. Public health had begun in 1906 when school nurses screened all children with standard tests for the first time. Welfare programs took over from the Overseers of the Poor in the Great Depression. At an accelerating rate since the 1940s, Social Security, regional medical and retirement centers, aging and home health agencies, elder hostels and wonder drugs have turned the confinement of Aged Relatives into the liberation of Senior Citizens. For the county's first 195 years, bells and sirens summoned neighbors together in an emergency. Now a 911 call assembles trained EMR vehicles, Medevac helicopters and their auxiliary supports. At the site they greet each other within a perimeter of pick ups and emergency vehicles holding spectators out of the way. Updated April 13, 2000

HI All Friends and Guests of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I have added a few more pages of the Bradford County Veterans to the site. You can reach that section form Box 12C of the Online Research Library. I am getting there. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have completed the task through the Ss. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counti es Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

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Hi All, I have just added a history to the flagholder page on the Maccabees. Those of you who have followed this part of the project will remember that it was partly the unusual flagholders of the Maccabees that piqued my interest in this whole subject and "got me going" on it. Check out the Maccabees page of the Flagholder section of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> for the story. Joyce M. Tice

Hi All, I have given you a few more pages of the Bradford County Veterans database at Box 12B of the Online Research Library of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I have also added quite a few new pages to the Flagholders section of the site. And I have added more examples and more histories to already existing pages. The traffic on that subsection of the site has been very heavy all weekend as new people have discovered it, so I have concentrated my time on that development. Have fun at <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> Joyce M. Tice

The City of Portland, Maine has designated a city cemetery as "dog friendly", and owners are allowing their pets to relieve themselves on people's graves. Paul O'Neil is leading a campaign to stop the desecration.